Helen Ball

An activist deceived into a relationship with an undercover officer has been awarded £230,000 compensation after a tribunal found the Metropolitan Police breached her Human Rights .

Kate Wilson met Mark Kennedy while he was posing as an environmental campaigner in Nottingham in 2003.

It later emerged he was married and had sexual relationships with up to 10 other women during his deployment.

Last Year the tribunal case revealed " disturbing and lamentable failings".

The Officer , who had used the name Mark Stone , had been sent to spy on activists as part of The Met 's National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPIOU).

He was one of half a dozen undercover officers from the NPIOU or its " sister unit" the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), who Ms Wilson came into contact with between 1998 and 2010.

On Monday, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ordered The Met and the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) to pay a total of £229,471. 96 to Ms Wilson " by way of just satisfaction for the breaches" under the European Convention on Human Rights .

Helen Ball , The Met 's assistant commissioner for professionalism, said: " We recognise the gravity of The Judgment in this case, which outlined a series of serious failings that allowed Kennedy to remain deployed on a long-term undercover deployment without the appropriate level of supervision and oversight.

" In entering into a sexual relationship, Kennedy's actions went against the training and guidelines undercover officers received at The Time .

" However, the tribunal found that the training was inadequate and more should have been done to consider the risks of male undercover officers forming relationships with women. We accept these findings. "

Source of news: bbc.com